Saturday, May 4, 2024
[dropcap]I[/dropcap] don’t want to launch into another “get off my lawn”-type old fogey complaint about baseball stats here, but I feel like my hand is being forced. Now, I’ve made my peace with a lot of the new-fangled metrics like Ultimate Zone Rating and Win-Shares. Those stats, while not […]
After two back-to-back trips to the Class A semifinals, Harrison’s baseball team has been on a roll in recent years. And although the Huskies’ season ended on May 24 with a 6-2 loss to eventual Section I runner-up Nyack, head coach Marco DiRuocco is confident that his squad will come […]
As this year’s baseball playoffs have shown, no high seed is safe from an early exit. It is a message that the Harrison Huskies have apparently taken to heart. Throughout the first two rounds this week, the No. 10 seed in Class A has eliminated No. 6 Eastchester and No. […]
A quick start against Byram Hills paid dividends for Harrison on May 3, as the Huskies rode an early lead to a hard-fought 8-7 win over the Bobcats. As the season draws to a close, Harrison coach Matt Cippolla is hoping that tight games such as last Thursday’s will help […]
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]s long as I follow sports, I don’t think I’ll ever suffer another loss quite as painful Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS. The storyline was about as rich as it gets in sports: My Red Sox, trying to end an 85-year curse, jumping out to an early lead against […]
